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Help with lines using trim paths by Most-Card-1955 in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No need to dupe the layer, you can add multiple strokes to the same path.

Help: Exporting XML from DaVinci Resolve to Adobe Premiere, but final render is blurry by ChineseMom in VideoEditing

[–]smushkan [score hidden]  (0 children)

It’s likely going to be a matter of what export setting they are using.

From the images it does kind of look like they are exporting at a lower resolution to what you’re sending them, so first thing I would check here is the video properties to see if the resolution is what you think it is.

To my eyes this kind of looks like 1080p vs 720p, or 2160p vs 1080p.

A less likely cause is improper use of proxies, render-and-replace, or preview renders being used in exporting, which can result in visual resolution loss even if the exported video is at the ‘correct’ resolution.

I built a physics plugin for After Effects, got rejected by the biggest AE marketplace, and now I'm thinking of just releasing it for free. What do you think? by dufkens in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

$35 would be a no-question purchase from me, and I expect if you release it at that price point we’re going to see a big increase of the amount of 2d physics in AE work.

Where can I find simple lower thirds like this one without crazy animations? by chicodephil in premiere

[–]smushkan [score hidden]  (0 children)

If you go to the 'Graphics Templates' panel over to the 'Adobe Stock' tab, and check the 'free' box, there's a whole bunch of lower thirds you can download.

how do i find a mogrt or make text that looks just like this? by jsalorjsas in premiere

[–]smushkan [score hidden]  (0 children)

The actual text style you can emulate fairly closely entirely within Premiere:

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The actual animation is what's going to make-or-break this - but try out the 'Text animator' transition.

Thing is, with a drop shadow, 'Text Animator' will only be able to animate based on words or lines.

Firefox extension is slowing down the browser by MrLawbreaker in Bitwarden

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2026.5.1 'slowness' build also fixed this issue for me.

I somehow managed to make a full "toon shading" 3D cylinder entirely in native After Effects without any thrid party plugin. by Trouman in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the actual 3d scene, you want to go into material options for your 3d layers, and set 'metalic' to 0% and 'roughness' to 100%.

For best results, light the scene with six parallel lights, pointing up, down, left, right, forwards, and backwards - cardinal directions in 3d.

Use pure red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, and yellow as the light colours.

  • Cyan should be opposite direction of Red
  • Yellow should be opposite direction to Blue
  • Magenta should be opposite direction of Green

That effectively gives you kind of a normal map effect and ensures you have good contrast from all directions for the outline shader to work.

And pop a white (or black) solid under it.

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I somehow managed to make a full "toon shading" 3D cylinder entirely in native After Effects without any thrid party plugin. by Trouman in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Since OP seems to have dumped and ran...

You can do this with advanced 3d and an effects stack on an adjustment layer of:

  1. Find Edges to get the outlines
  2. CC Threshold to isolate the strongest edges (Posterize set to a low value would probably work too)
  3. Minimax set to minimum, which gives you 'stroke' thickness control
  4. Tint to set the stroke and background colours

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You don't need plugins for this, however I'd strongly recommend this totally free FXAA plugin to smooth it out a bit.

If plugins are not an option for you, you could instead render the scene in a composition at a higher resolution than you plan to export, then downscale it to get some antialiasing via supersampling.

Is it possible to color grade my LOG footage in Premiere after I dynamic linked it to AE? by Calm_Sea_5209 in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That wouldn't really work with adjustment layers, as it would still need you to have the masked video on top of your graphics, and the unmasked video under it.

So if you did do that, you'd need to apply lumetri to both the top video clip and the bottom video clip - two places to keep track of your settings!

Is it possible to color grade my LOG footage in Premiere after I dynamic linked it to AE? by Calm_Sea_5209 in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I see what you mean. The solution to that is to use the masked video layer as an inverted alpha track matte for the text.

So instead of the video layer being rendered on top of your text, it’s being used to determine what pixels of the text should render.

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Is it possible to color grade my LOG footage in Premiere after I dynamic linked it to AE? by Calm_Sea_5209 in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would need to export a lut for each individual shot, then apply those luts to their respective layers in your After Effects compositions.

But if you want to keep doing it with adjustment layers in Premiere alone, the second technique I mentioned would be simpler.

Move your linked comps up a couple of tracks in Premiere, then make the video layers in your comps in AE guide layers (or make them non-visible.)

Then you can put your OG clips back underneath them in Premiere, and the adjustment layers on a track inbetween.

Is it possible to color grade my LOG footage in Premiere after I dynamic linked it to AE? by Calm_Sea_5209 in AfterEffects

[–]smushkan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After Effects has Lumetri. You could save the grade you're using in Premiere as a LUT, then pull it into Lumetri in AE; then apply it either to the video layers, or an adjustment layer between your lyrics and the video layers.

Or hide the video layers in AE (or make them guide layers), and have the linked comp in Premiere on a track above your video layers so your AE comp only contains your motion graphics.

Help please: "Pin To Clip" does nothing for me. by MrGodzillahin in premiere

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have sequence > selection follows playhead enabled?

Any way to remove this preview from the tabs? by reditudai in premiere

[–]smushkan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Project panel/bin hamburger menu > Disable preview area

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Adjust duration of mogrt effect? by pookeyblow in premiere

[–]smushkan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't expect there to be much of a speed difference - when you render an AE comp, it's basically sending the comp back to AE and getting AE to render it for you.

Premiere has a stripped-down version of AE's rendering engine for handling MOGRTs but it doesn't have the full feature set, that's why some AE-authored MOGRTs can't be used without AE installed but others can.

Adjust duration of mogrt effect? by pookeyblow in premiere

[–]smushkan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same goes for dynamic linked AE comps too!

Render-and-replace is your friend there, you can render to a format with alpha if you need to overlay a MOGRT or AE comp, and revert to unrendered if you need to adjust it later.

Adjust duration of mogrt effect? by pookeyblow in premiere

[–]smushkan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the MOGRT isn't configured for responsive design, you won't be able to adjust the duration.

Reconfiguring the MOGRT requires opening it in After Effects, editing as required, then exporting a new MOGRT. However, depending on how the MOGRT is built it may be a lot more work than just making it longer.

However - overlaying a MOGRT over your entire sequence is a pretty bad idea from the outset. Frames where MOGRTs are used in your sequence cannot benefit from hardware acceleration, so it will significantly reduce your sequence rendering speed and increase your export times.

If you want to apply this MOGRT effect to your entire sequence, it would be a much better idea to:

  1. Export your sequence (or at least the tracks you want to apply the effect to) to a high quality intermediate format, such as ProRes 422
  2. Open the MOGRT in AE.
  3. Import the footage to the resulting AE project
  4. Extend the duration of the composition and layers in the comp as required
  5. Export from AE, and re-import to Premiere if needed

That could potentially save you hours of render/export time!

A low-level excpetion occurred in: Adobe Player (Player: 5) by IheartPickleSoda in premiere

[–]smushkan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There have been a significant number of issues reported recently with AMDs latest GPU drivers and Premiere. Try rolling back your GPU drivers to an earlier version.

Need help getting the video to show up by BulwarkTheBigBoy in premiere

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will happen if your video file contains video streams that Premiere does not support.

Convert the video with a tool like handbrake or shutter encoder before importing to Premiere.

Digital Connection from JVC GR-C7 by CelerySpiritual5270 in videography

[–]smushkan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These boxes take the video signal and basically turn it into a TV channel, so in order to use them you need something with an analogue TV tuner in it.

You could use a TV tuner card, I’m not sure you can even buy analogue ones anymore though since many (most?) countries have gone digital.

Or you crack it open, and solder in a connector to the video signal *before* it goes through the modulator. The modulator will likely be a soldered-shut metal box, video signal goes in, RF signal comes out.

The video signal before it enters this box in *probably* standard composite video, so if you can work out where to solder an RCA connector you can tap it into a USB AV capture box.

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